I am trying to get a Clauss I picked up on E-Bay ready to shave. This is the first razor that has not been made shave ready by someone else first, so I am pretty sure my issues are due to my lack of practice with hones.

First I removed the oxidation from the blade with Maas until it looked really shiny and nice. Then I did about 25-30 passes on the Spyderco medium in groups of 5 until it seemed to cut a few arm hairs (or at least tug on them). Then I did 20 passes each on the Fine and Ultrafine until it seemed fairly sharp and cut arm hairs reasonably well (but still not like my sharp razors). I then proceeded to do 15 passes on a .5 pasted strop and then 15 on linen and 40 on leather.

It glided cleanly across my face, but cut nothing still! It still cut arm hairs as well. Obviously I did a lousy job setting the bevel or removing the years of oxidation, but am not really sure how to hone this razor correctly.

Can anyone give me some good tips on using Spyderco hones to get an old blade shave ready?